Mukhtar Ansari’s son moves Supreme Court seeking transfer of his father from UP jail to any non-BJP ruled state | India News
File photo of Mukhtar Ansari. (Photo credit: Facebook)
New Delhi: Umar Ansari, son of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction for the transfer of his father from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda Jail to any other prison outside the state not ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying he apprehends “imminent and serious threat” to the life of his father.
Umar’s plea, while seeking a direction that his father be produced before courts only via videoconferencing, said that his father belongs to a political party opposed to the state’s ruling party, both “politically and ideologically” and his family has been a target of “persecution” by the State.
My father’s life is in grave danger: Umar Ansari
The plea filed by Umar has claimed that the state has consistently been taking a personally inimical position against his family, particularly his father, but “now the petitioner’s father has received reliable information that his life is in grave danger and there is a conspiracy afoot involving several actors within the state establishment to assassinate him in Banda jail.”
Umar has further said in his plea that he is extremely fearful and concerned for his father and “he apprehends a grave and imminent threat to his father’s life and limb in Banda jail.”
Allahabad HC ordered enhanced security for Mukhtar Ansari
The plea filed by Umar said that Allahabad High Court ordered in May enhanced security for his father while hearing a plea filed by his mother seeking protection, safety and security of his father, however, certain unidentified and suspicious persons visited jail barracks of his father on May 18 after the High Court passed the order for enhanced security.
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“The petitioner is deeply disturbed by the above-mentioned series of events including the murder of persons who were accused with his father in the BJP leader Krishnanand Rai murder case as well as co-accused in other cases under circumstances suggesting state complicity, the murder of late Atiq Ahmad and his brother in full police protection… and therefore the petitioner apprehends an imminent threat to his father’s life,” Umar’s plea said.
The plea has further claimed that the apprehension also stemmed from the fact that his father is an eyewitness in many criminal cases where influential members of the ruling BJP are accused and “therefore, covert and overt attempts are being made in order to take away the life of the petitioner’s father (Mukhtar Ansari) and deter the progress of such criminal cases.”
Who is Mukhtar Ansari?
Mukhtar Ansari was elected Member of Legislative Agency (MLA) multiple times from Mau constituency in Uttar Pradesh and is currently lodged in jail serving imprisonment in connection with various criminal cases.
